This isn’t the first time a company’s created an advertisement rivalry though.

Before the advent of the internet and modern game consoles, Sega Genesis was totally doing what Nintendon’t. The Sega Genesis came equipped with something the company called, “blast processing.” This feature supposedly made it an awesome system and to this day, people still really don’t even know what the term actually referred to.

In another Sega commercial an angry man in a television proclaims, “Hey! You still don’t have a Sega CD? What are you waiting for, Nintendo to make one?.”

The irony of that statement is hilarious in 2012. Nintendo never released a Super Nintendo CD console, because, well, it was a stupid idea and the Sega CD? It crashed and burned a few short months after its release on October 2, 1992.

Interestingly, at one point Nintendo was actually developing a CD attachment for their 16-bit Super Nintendo console in a partnership with Sony but scrapped the project. This device would eventually evolve into a console gamers everywhere know today: The PlayStation.

Nintendo also got in on the commercial fighting fun, but was a little friendlier with their comments. If you watch closely you’ll see a young Paul Rudd in one of Nintendo’s commercials.

This is a collection of the top retro Sega vs. Nintendo gaming commercials.